Developing your outcome

Developing your outcome

You are now ready to start developing your digital outcome!

Let's first think about what a Development Cycle (Sprint) is. We also call these iterative cycles. 

Here's the one we use below:

What's the Difference?

MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and MAP (Minimum Awesome Product) are two key stages for product development. They differ in their emphasis on functionality, usability, and aesthetics. 

MVP prioritizes getting a basic, functional product working quickly. It emphasises basic functionality over everything else. It is used to test basic functions and gather user feedback, to help you understand if your idea is functional and what users think of it.

MAP focuses on delivering a complete well-designed and polished product, emphasizing functionality, usability, and aesthetics. In other words, developing a product that users will enjoy, find useful, and be easy to use. 

Watch this great video to explain these further:

Planning

To create your development plan, try the following:

• Find the planning table in your workbook (see part three)

• Copy your requirements list in the first column. 

• First decide what is most important to do in your first sprint (your MVP). Your specifications can really help with this. Remember, the goal is to create a basic, functional product only. Add these to Cycle 1

• Then think about what you would need to do to complete each requirement, in other words to make the parts of the finished outcome. Add these to Cycle 2

I've created a few examples to help you understand this approach - see below

It's SOOOOO important to remember though that your plan may change after you complete your MVP. That's because your testing and trialling will discover things you might not have thought about.